President Donald Trump once again said that Portland “is burning down” on Tuesday, this time from the Oval Office.

“I looked at Portland over the weekend,” Trump said, speaking from his desk. “The place is burning down. Just burning down.”

It should be noted that while an RV fire did destroy a vehicle and damage some buildings in Southeast Portland on Friday, Portland is not in fact burning down.

Over the weekend, some 40,000 “No Kings” protesters came out to march against the Trump administration .

That event shut down traffic at different parts of the day but was largely peaceful.

Later Saturday, several hundred people gathered in a nighttime protest at Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility which did include some smoke — federal agents used tear gas agai

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